Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.